Tag: #MGbooks

Jack, Quint, June, and Dirk are back and ready to kick monster butt in Max Brallier’s second installment of the fun THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH series. In ZOMBIE PARADE, Jack and the gang are still cruising around the town of Wakefield in search of the baddies. Survival, snack food, …

Catrina and her family move from Southern California to the coast of Northern California for her younger sister’s health. Maya has cystic fibrosis and the cleaner, cooler air blowing in from the Pacific Ocean is better for her lungs. Cystic fibrosis is incurable and Cat knows that someday Maya …

As Middle Grade Bloggers, we get the opportunity to review books before they hit the shelves. Luckily, we had the privileged of getting Bryce Moore’s book, The Memory Thief, before it made its way to Barnes & Noble. Even better is that the author agreed to answer our questions. Middle …

Buckle your seat belts. Sit back. Enjoy the ride. The Memory Thief is a fast paced middle grade adventure that moves like an amusement park ride. The tracks are familiar. There are highs and lows, plenty of excitement and a few chills. But there’s an interesting twist too: it’s about …

Book two in the Doodle Adventure series, THE PURSUIT OF THE PESKY PIZZA PIRATE by Mike Lowery proved to be another fun, interactive story that entertained my almost 9 year old son for hours. The first book, THE SEARCH FOR THE SLIMY SPACE SLUGS, introduced a style of story telling …

Not all revisions are created equal. Some manuscripts are clean first drafts that fell out of your head onto the page like they wanted to be written. Other stories fight you every step of the way and you have to whip them into submission to make the novel work. Still …

Happy book birthday to THE ADVENTURER’S GUIDE TO GREAT ESCAPES by Wade Albert White. It seems like a thrilling, funny fantasy for kids and those who are kids at heart. ABOUT THE BOOK: A thrilling debut novel where fantasy and science fiction meet, dragons aren’t as innocent as they look, …

Guest Post Contributor: Author, M. Tara Crowl Everyone knows what a genie is, right? The basics, anyway: magical being, oil lamp, three wishes. But when I started writing a middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old genie who wants to be a regular girl, I realized very quickly that there were …

Happy Book Birthday to EDEN”S ESCAPE by M. Tara Crowl. Eden’s Escape is the second book in the Eden of the Lamp series. These two books are marvelous adventure stories for middle grade girls. The idea of a girl genie who wants her own wish to come true is a delightful …

Annabel Grey knows she’s not supposed to look into puddles. Her mother forbids it. She can’t help herself. The terrifying images she sees in them are mesmerizing. What is happening to this prim and proper Victorian young lady? It’s magic of course! She is a most magical girl. She doesn’t …